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Qubax
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 Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject: executables und directories in different colors |
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i used RH before and liked to have different colors for directories and executables, so i would like to make the same working with GENTOO, but i have no idea how
i know that there is a man somewhere, but by overflying bash-man i couldn't find it (or haven't see it)
somebody knows where to look |
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tomas
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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Try adding the following to your .bashrc
| Code: | eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
alias ls="ls --color=auto" |
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y0-y0
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| you got a list of color codes by chance?... (or a link where i can find more info?) |
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tomas
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| Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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man dir_colors  |
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Qubax
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| Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2002 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| thx i made it |
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y0-y0
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| tomas wrote: | | man dir_colors |
oooh never thought it was a package, thought it was some kernel feature
brilliant! just what da doc ordered |
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tomas
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| Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2002 9:42 am Post subject: |
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It's good to know how to use man. Not only can you use it to get documentation on most commands, there's also documentation on configuration files (section 5), devices (section 4) etc.  |
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Lion
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| tomas wrote: | | It's good to know how to use man. Not only can you use it to get documentation on most commands, there's also documentation on configuration files (section 5), devices (section 4) etc. |
Yes, man is really helpful _if_you_already_know_the_command_!
If you have no idea what command to use, how do you find it?
I know of apropos, but often, this will not help either. |
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tomas
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2002 10:39 am Post subject: |
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If you don't know the command, you can always try the -K option.
man -K 5 dns for example. -K tells man to search all of the man files, not just the short descriptions (which you can search with -k or apropos). If you use it, it might be a good idea to select a section, as in the example.
Sometimes it's helpful to use xman instead. With that, you can easily list all pages in a section and try to find a command by name.
If that doesn't work... Well, there's always Google and The Linux Documentation Project... And of course, https://forums.gentoo.org  |
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